The Discourses by Epictetus - Translated by George Long

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Read by: Christine Rottger

• Introduction and Preface

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Book I

• I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power
• II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character
• III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest
• IV. Of Progress or Improvement
• V. Against the Academics
• VI. Of Providence
• VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like
• VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed
• IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences
• X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome
• XI. Of Natural Affection
• XII. Of Contentment
• XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods
• XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things
• XV. What Philosophy Promises
• XVI. Of Providence
• XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary
• XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others
• XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants
• XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself
• XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired
• XXII. On Precognition
• XXIII. Against Epicurus
• XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances
• XXV. On the Same
• XXVI. What is the Law of Life
• XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them
• XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men
• XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)
• XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances

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Book II

• I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution
• II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)
• III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers
• IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery
• V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care
• VI. Of Indifference
• VII. How We Ought to Use Divination
• VIII. What Is the Nature Of the Good
• IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher
• X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names
• XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is
• XII. Of Disputation or Discussion
• XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)
• XIV. To Naso
• XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined
• XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil
• XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases
• XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances
• XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words
• XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics
• XXI. Of Inconsistency
• XXII. On Friendship
• XXIII. On the Power of Speaking
• XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him)
• XXV. That Logic is Necessary
• XXVI. What Is the Property of Error

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Book III

• I. Of Finery in Dress
• II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things
• III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves
• IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre
• V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home
• VI. Miscellaneous
• VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean
• VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances
• IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit
• X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness
• XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters
• XII. About Exercise
• XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is
• XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters
• XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything
• XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men
• XVII. On Providence
• XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News
• XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher
• XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things
• XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists
• XXII. About Cynism
• XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation
• XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power
• XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose
• XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want

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Book IV

• I. About Freedom
• II. On Familiar Intimacy
• III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things
• IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility
• V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious
• VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied
• VII. On Freedom From Fear
• VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress
• IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness
• X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value
• XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)
• XII. On Attention
• XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs